GENEVA Vince Carter Jersey , April 4 (Xinhua) -- The preliminary investigation linked Chadian soldiers to the shooting incident having happened last Saturday in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (CAR), said the United Nations' human rights agency on Friday.
The shooting has caused some 30 deaths and hundreds more wounded.
Rupert Colville, spokesman with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told a press conference that the initial investigation into the incident was carried out by a human rights team on the ground from the Human Rights and Justice Section of United Nations Integrated Peace Building Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA).
According to the information the team have collected so far, last Saturday Chadian national army soldiers in a convoy consisting of several military pick-ups went to the PK 12 neighborhood in northern Bangui, and the convey reportedly opened fire indiscriminately to a market area full of people with no provocation Tracy Mcgrady Jersey , said Rupert.
According to their preliminary findings, the shooting led to 30 people killed, and over 300 severely injured, including children, people with disabilities, pregnant women and elderly people, said the spokesman.
Current information showed that "it seemed the Chadian force's action was totally disproportionate as they were shooting in a crowded market full of unarmed civilians" Timofey Mozgov Jersey , as Rupert noted.
He added that several sources told the investigating team that they believed the Chadian force had entered Bangui to extract remaining Chadians and other Muslim inhabitants to avoid further attacks by anti-Balaka.
UN statistics showed that the conflict in CAR, having burst out since December last year between mainly Muslim Seleka rebels and anti-Balaka, mainly Christians, claimed more than 2,000 lives, displaced some 637,000 within the country Terrence Ross Jersey , and drove more than 290,000 to fled to neighboring countries.
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